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The Sit-Down at Ben-Gurion: Huckabee Too Diplomatic in the Face of Carlson’s Smears

By Alan Zeitlin

Carlson has great skill in magnifying and minimizing what he wants to, and is a charismatic con-artist who is unlikely to be discredited by a kind man who cares about decorum.

Headline / Perspectives / Analysis

The Sit-Down at Ben-Gurion: Huckabee Too Diplomatic in the Face of Carlson’s Smears

By Alan Zeitlin

Carlson has great skill in magnifying and minimizing what he wants to, and is a charismatic con-artist who is unlikely to be discredited by a kind man who cares about decorum.

The Ettinger Report

An Open Letter to Isolationists

By Yoram Ettinger

The delusional wish of Isolationists to militarily disengage from Islamic terrorism, establish peaceful coexistence, and be preoccupied with the domestic agenda, must be based on global and Middle East reality; not on alternate reality.

Inspiration from Zion: This is a Love Story / Analysis

8 Things you need to know about the Kotel and the Temple Mount

By Forest Rain

As we mourn the destruction of the Temple, we should learn some often overlooked facts about the site.

Analysis

Libel: Israel may have Planned the Murder of the Israeli Embassy Staffers ‎

By Itamar Marcus

Posted on FB page of Former Jordanian Minister of Interior mere hours after the assassination

Analysis

10 BIG Lies Palestinians Tell to Deny Jewish history in the Land of Israel

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

Lacking any evidence of Palestinian peoplehood earlier than the 20th century, they resort to falsifying history using outright lies.

Headline / Analysis

IDF’s 2025 strategy: A multi-front war focused on Gaza and Iran

By Yaakov Lappin

"Unlike in the past, the IDF will remain in every area that is conquered in Gaza, to prevent the return of terrorism," a security source says.

Analysis

Senior PA Official: China is “Savior of Humanity”

By Itamar Marcus

A world war is looming caused by "the Zionist-American alliance" and China is the savior

Analysis

Remembering the Massacre of the Hadassah Convoy, April 13, 1948

By Alex Grobman PhD.

Once the partition of Palestine was approved by the United Nations on November 29, 1947, the violence against the Jews intensified. The equivalent of a Red Cross medical convoy comprised of non-combatants, including doctors, nurses, and university faculty and students, was ambushed by Arabs in the Sheikh Jarrah section of Jerusalem.

Analysis

Hamas’s Plan to Turn Gaza Into Another Lebanon

By Yaakov Lappin

Hamas seeks to end the war while maintaining its military control over Gaza, mirroring Hezbollah’s pre-war dominance in Lebanon. Israel must not allow this to happen, even if Egypt pushes for it.

The Ettinger Report

2025 Jewish Demographic Momentum in Israel

By Yoram Ettinger

In 2024, Jewish births were 76% of total births, compared to 69% in 1995. The surge of Jewish births is due to the unprecedented rise of births (since 1995) in the secular sector,

Analysis

Jewish Nationalism

By Alex Grobman PhD.

The concept of exile and return to Zion dominates halakhah.

The Ettinger Report

Demographic Reality Contradicts Conventional Wisdom

By Yoram Ettinger

In 2025, contrary to conventional wisdom, Israel’s Jewish demographic momentum since the 1990s is due largely to the fertility rise in the secular sector,

Analysis

“The Third Reich and the Ivory Tower: Complicity and Conflict”

By Alex Grobman PhD.

At American universities, denying antisemitism is not a new phenomenon

Analysis

Iranian Subversion in Jordan and Judea and Samaria post-Oct. 7

By Oded Ailam

The regime’s hardliners view recent setbacks as temporary tactical challenges that must be navigated before resuming their broader objectives.

Analysis

Top Baby Names in Israel Over Seven Decades Shows

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

David, Yosef, Sarah (also among Arabs) and Rachel the most popular choices among the state's Jews since 1948.

Featured / Analysis

A Deep State Doesn’t Get Any Deeper Than This

By Gadi Taub

How judges, generals and bureaucrats abolished Israel's democracy.

Analysis

First Letters of People of Faith after the Holocaust

By Alex Grobman PhD.

Elie Weisel famously said: 'If anything can, it is memory that will save humanity.' While antisemitism sweeps the globe, it is time to remember, act, and place our faith in G-d. A book that expresses those feelings in Holocaust survivors' own words.

Analysis

How Biden Fueled a 200% Surge in Antisemitism

By Liel Leibovitz

Trump signed an executive order intended to revolutionize the fight against Jew-hatred.

The Ettinger Report

Trump’s Policy Toward Israel; Underlying Assumptions

By Yoram Ettinger

Unlike the State Department’s worldview, President Trump does not consider Israel to be part of the problem, but a major part of the solution.

Analysis

How Did Israel Win the Iron Swords War?

By BESA CENTER

Israel began the Iron Swords War on October 7, 2023, on a “Yom Kippur War” dynamic; Israel ended the war on January 17, 2025, on a “Six-Day War” dynamic

Analysis

‘The Middle East Flipped Upside Down’: Israel-US Relations During the War

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

Why the Rafah entry was delayed, where the heavy bombs withheld by the White House are located, and how Jerusalem persuaded Washington to support the invasion of Lebanon.

The Ettinger Report

President Trump, Beware of Middle East Reality

By Yoram Ettinger

*Ending wars and terrorism is a noble aspiration, which confronts the reality of NO intra-Muslim peaceful coexistence during the last 14 centuries. In fact, since 1948, intra-Muslim wars have featured a toll of mega-million fatalities (e.g., 3 million killed during two civil wars in the Sudan, 3 million during the Pakistan-Bangladesh war, over 1 million […]

Analysis

PA Doled Out 506 Million Shekels to Terrorists Released in Current Exchange

By Itamar Marcus

316 new Palestinian terrorist millionaires walking the streets thanks to PA pay-for-slay payments

Analysis

Will Trump Cut US Aid to the Palestinian Authority?

By Sveta Listratov

Issues include the involvement of PA security forces in terror attacks, and the “pay for slay” stipends Ramallah pays to terrorists imprisoned in Israel.

Analysis

IDF Withdrawal from Lebanon: Is it Even Feasible by Jan. 26?

By Yaakov Lappin

With the deadline looming, concerns remain over the Lebanese Armed Forces’ readiness to enforce the ceasefire agreement and curb Hezbollah’s resurgence.

Analysis

Gaza-Sinai Border Looms as Hostage Deal’s Top Strategic Issue

By Canaan Lidor

"If Israelis don’t control it, they don’t control Gaza,” Middle East analyst Daniel Pipes says of the Philadelphi Corridor.

The Ettinger Report

A Hanukkah Guide for the Perplexed, 2024

By Yoram Ettinger

The Hebrew words Hanukkah (חנוכה), inauguration (חנוכ), and education ((חנוך possess an identical root.

Analysis

Syria’s Earthquake and the Aftershock in Lebanon

By Col. Dr. Jacques Neriah

The fall of Assad will impact on Lebanon’s presidential election and Hizbullah’s future

The Ettinger Report

President Trump – Beware of HTS and the Moslem Brotherhood

By Yoram Ettinger

The vision of the HTS is not limited to Syria. It aims to topple all national Islamic regimes, and establish a universal Islamic entity, as prescribed by the precepts of the Moslem Brotherhood, which has pursued its goals through politics, education, social welfare and affiliates, splinters and offshoots that engage in terrorism.

Analysis

Turkish-Orchestrated Attacks on Kurds Threaten Israeli Interests Too

By Yaakov Lappin

Military action against the Kurds in northern and eastern Syria threatens a U.S. ally that could prevent future Iranian arms smuggling.

Analysis

A Call for Unity: Irving Bunim, 'A Fire In His Soul': Part II

By Alex Grobman PhD.

Given the tremendous unmet needs of the survivors and an inefficient effort by the American Orthodox community to help observant European Jews, the Vaad insisted there be unity among Orthodox Jews or the mission of saving the Torah community in Europe would be doomed.

Analysis

Israel’s ‘Golden Opportunity’ to Wean Itself Off US Military Aid

By David Isaac

"The advantages of independence clearly outweigh the benefits of continuing the status quo," says Misgav Institute fellow Raphael BenLevi.

Analysis

Tahrir al-Sham’s Syrian Strategy: A Moderate Mask or Genuine Shift?

By Baruch Yedid / TPS

The fallout from Israel’s success over Hamas and Hezbollah has triggered a domino effect threatening Syrian President Bashar Assad’s grip on power and Iran’s regional influence.

J.E. Dyer

106 Years: Veterans Day 2024

By J. E. Dyer

War and the torch of peace, in such a time as this.

Analysis

Unholy Union: France and Iran's Genocidal Connection

By Ariel Kogan

Macron advocates for arms embargo on Israel due to civilian casualties in Gaza and Lebanon while French-made weaponry linked to rights abuses in Myanmar, Yemen, Iran and worldwide

Analysis

France and Iran: Common Ground in the Mid East

By Joseph Epstein

France has been content to ignore the hazards of its decisions in a haughty and neocolonialist pursuit of influence.

Analysis

France and Iran Shamelessly Decide the Fate of Lebanon

By Ariel Kogan

Iran sees Azerbaijan first and foremost as a friend of its archenemy — Israel.

The Ettinger Report

Time for a Change: US National Security Mandates Iran Regime Change

By Yoram Ettinger

Instead, the US State Department has embraced the diplomatic option, which has generated hundreds of billions of dollars to the Ayatollahs -

Headline / J.E. Dyer

What Bibi Must Keep Doing

By J. E. Dyer

Don’t quit when you’re ahead.

The Ettinger Report

2024 Yom Kippur Guide for the Perplexed

By Yoram Ettinger

“The Lord said to Moses, that the tenth day of this seventh month [Tishrei] is the Day of Atonement…. Do not do any work on that day…. This is a lasting ordinance for generations to come….”

Analysis

The IDF Advocate General is Protecting Gazan ‘Civilians’ Who Participated in the Oct. 7 Massacre

By Gadi Taub

In this clash between politicians and jurists, between woke moralism and real morality, lies a question with global historical implications.

The Ettinger Report

October 7, 2023 Deprecating Self-destructive Western Screensavers

By Yoram Ettinger

Has October 7, 2023, awakened Western policymakers to the realization that they are driven by a screensaver - rather than Middle East reality?

Analysis

‘Irving Bunim: A Fire in His Soul: Part I

By Alex Grobman PhD.

Irving Bunim, a key leader and builder of the Young Israel movement

Analysis

‘Mafia Tactics’: How Hezbollah Intimidates Christians, Steals Southern Lebanese Property

By Pesach Benson / TPS

“We’re talking about extortion, forcing Christians to pay protection money, burning houses and cars and kidnapping businessmen. Those are the tactics they use. The Lebanese government doesn’t do anything. It’s dominated by Hezbollah.”

Analysis

Signs Point to Imminent Ground Offensive in Lebanon

By Baruch Yedid / TPS

Israel’s war goals include securely returning northern residents to their homes.

Analysis

What Would A Ground War in Lebanon Look Like?

By Anna Epshtein

A security zone in south Lebanon will need to be carved out.

In Print / Analysis

Urgency, Fear, And Determination At RJC Event in Las Vegas

By Jason Ciment

What becomes clearer after the constant refrain from politicians of their support for Jews in America is that their declarations and actions are not just about protecting Jewish communities – though that is certainly at the foundation.

Analysis

The Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas and Israel

By Alex Grobman PhD.

For Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Israeli penitentiaries were “boot camps” where many of its members forged their ideology and commitment to the organizations during the years spent together with other inmates.

Analysis / Israel At War: Iron Swords

From Gaza to Lebanon’s ‘Land of Tunnels’: Israel Prepares for a New Underground War

By Noah Michaeli

Both Israel and Hezbollah learned much about tunnel fighting from the IDF's war in Gaza.

Analysis

War of Words: Part VII: Fighting the War of Words Against the Jewish People Today

By Alex Grobman PhD.

A Jewish-Arab comparison in WWII: Jews parachuting behind enemy lines in WWII and providing technological savvy.

J.E. Dyer

The Heat is On: Options for Deterrence in the Middle East

By J. E. Dyer

To re-seize the initiative and get deterrence going

Analysis

War of Words: Part V: Failure to Launch: The “Great Arab Revolt”

By Alex Grobman PhD.

Setting the record straight on the Arab propaganda war because the unending war between the Palestinian Arabs and Israeli Jews is fought on a number of levels. One on the military front; another in the propaganda arena.

In Print / Analysis

Shabbos Kestenbaum On His RNC Speech: The Orthodox Jew Suing Harvard Responds to Critiques of Trump

By Alan Zeitlin

Let’s elect a president who recognizes that although Harvard and the Ivy Leagues have long abandoned the United States of America, the Jewish people never will, because Jewish values are American values and American values are Jewish values, he said in his speech.

The Ettinger Report

Palestinian vs. Saudi Education

By Yoram Ettinger

But it is of no concern to Foggy Bottom

The Ettinger Report

Can Israel Afford to Defy State Dept Pressure?

By Yoram Ettinger

Can Israel Afford NOT to Defy State Dept Pressure?

Analysis

5 Alternatives for the Future of Gaza

By BESA CENTER

It is essential to conduct a far-reaching discussion on all these alternatives and to avoid attachment to any one of them

Analysis

Does Israel Need a Large Army If It Has Advanced Technology?

By BESA CENTER

What are the lessons for IDF force build-up following the Hamas attack on October 7 and the Iron Swords War?

Analysis / Israel At War: Iron Swords

Hezbollah’s Vast Subterranean Network in Lebanon is in a Different League from Gaza

By Nadav Shragai / Israel Hayom

With the help of Iran and North Korea, the terrorist organization has been working for 18 years on attack, strategic and booby-trapped tunnels.

Analysis

Fatah: Hamas Kills Aid workers and Steals Food for Itself

By Palestinian Media Watch

Fatah TV anchor: Hamas attacked and killed aid workers; it has persecuted them since the start of the war

The Ettinger Report

Passover Guide for the Perplexed 2024

By Yoram Ettinger

11. Jerusalem is mentioned three times in the annual story of Passover (Haggadah), which is concluded by the vow: "Next Year in the reconstructed Jerusalem!"

Analysis

Six Months into the War, Gaza Could Become Secondary Arena

By Yaakov Lappin

Former IDF Military Intelligence chief Amos Yadlin: The problem is not Gaza. The problem is Iran.

Analysis

Terror-Supporting Qatar is No Friend of the West

By Israel Kasnett

By hosting Hamas’s leaders, allowing Al Jazeera to spread anti-Israel propaganda and funding U.S. universities in exchange for influence, Qatar has demonstrated clearly it is on the side of evil.

Analysis

What’s Behind Hezbollah’s High Stakes Diplomacy With the UAE?

By Baruch Yedid / TPS

The delegation was led by Wafiq Safa, who is regarded as Hezbollah’s chief negotiator on issues of prisoner exchanges and hostages, and also included a brother-in-law of Hezbollah chief Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah.

Analysis

Aaron Bushell: The New Palestinian Hero and Role Model

By Itamar Marcus

Bushell by committing suicide wants to “… create a turning point in the methods and tools of the solidarity movement with the Palestinian issue in the world.”

Dr. Mordechai Kedar

Armenia Getting Closer to Iran After US Sanctions Russia More Intensively

By Dr. Mordechai Kedar

Where Iran and Armenia traded $350 million worth of goods in 2021, the expectation is that this figure will rise to $1 billion this year.

Analysis

Ramadan ‘Explosion’ Looms for Israel and Hamas

By Baruch Yedid / TPS

Ramadan is two weeks away and the clock is ticking.

Analysis

‘They Love Jews, Especially Dead Jews’

By Alex Grobman PhD.

Those who helped were few and far between

The Ettinger Report

Conventional Western Wisdom vs. Middle East Reality

By Yoram Ettinger

Western appeasement of Shiite, Sunni and Palestinian terrorism has ignored the well-documented fact, that terrorists bite the hands that feed them,

Analysis

US Obsession with Two-State Solution is ‘Delusional’

By Israel Kasnett

It's “shocking" that a U.S. administration would push for a Palestinian state under ordinary circumstances, let alone after Oct. 7, said former U.S. Middle East envoy Jason Greenblatt.

The Ettinger Report

US’ Mid East Policy Defied by Mid East Reality

By Yoram Ettinger

US eagerness to conclude various agreements has brought the opposite of intended results

Analysis

The Buffer Zone Taking Shape in Gaza

By Yaakov Lappin

While the depth of a future buffer zone remains unclear, a kilometer appears to be one realistic option for defending the border communities—a kilometer into Gaza in which Israel will have a complete picture of what is occurring overground and underground.

Analysis

UNRWA - Its Last Dying Gasps

By Deborah Srour-Politis

The International Court of Justice in The Hague tried hard to oblige Israel to end the war and withdraw its forces from Gaza, but even after defaming the Jewish State in the first 35 minutes of the decision, in the end the decision failed. During the opening, the president of the International Court of Justice, […]

Analysis

Israel can Limit the ICJ’s Potential Damage

By Eugene Kontorovich

Israel must immediately end its acceptance of the ICJ's jurisdiction with respect to the Genocide Convention.

Analysis

US-Lebanon Diplomacy ‘A Fool’s Errand’ but Still ‘Has Value’

By Israel Kasnett

While U.S. diplomacy is not likely to lead anywhere, giving it a chance (and calling attention to the failure of U.N. Resolution 1701) could be critical for the legitimacy of an Israeli operation against Hezbollah, experts tell JNS

Analysis

Israel Navigates Iran’s Multiple Fronts As Regional Tensions Rise

By Baruch Yedid / TPS

“Who told you that we do not attack in Iran, ” asked Netanyahu.

Analysis

Israel and South African: Part I: Trade and Nuclear Technology

By Alex Grobman PhD.

After South Africa filed a  lawsuit with the UN's International Court of Justice claiming Israel is violating the UN convention on genocide by "killing Palestinians in Gaza, causing them serious bodily and mental harm, and inflicting on them conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction," Israel’s past relationship with South Africa’s Apartheid […]

The Ettinger Report

Vote of Confidence in Israel’s Economy in the Face of War

By Yoram Ettinger

Despite a unique environment – top heavy on terrorism and war, but low on natural resources and rainfall - Israel has bolstered its do-or-die state of mind, with defiance of odds, risk-taking, frontier, pioneering, optimism, patriotism, can-do and out-of-the-box mentality. This has yielded a robust flow of game-changing commercial, defense and dual-use technologies.

Analysis

Hezbollah’s Attack on Israeli Base Was a Wake-Up Call

By Yaakov Lappin

(TPS) Hezbollah’s Jan. 6 attack on the Israeli Air Force’s Meron air traffic control base, likely using Iranian-supplied Kornet-EM missiles, marks a significant escalation by the Iran-backed terrorist group. The day before the attack, Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah had threatened retaliation for the Jan. 2 assassination of Saleh Al-Arouri, Hamas’s deputy politburo chief in Beirut. […]

Analysis

Setting the Record Straight: Part XV: Admiration and Glorification of Arab Terrorists

By Alex Grobman PhD.

Palestine Authority’s (PA) relentless glorification of terrorists reinforces the culture of hatred against Jews.

The Ettinger Report

Diplomatic option toward Iran is Self-destructive

By Yoram Ettinger

Iran: The largest anti-American venomous octopus in the world

Analysis

Majority of Israelis: Antisemitism Driving Gaza War Protests

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

The Israel Democracy Institute poll also found that 69% of all Israelis support elections immediately after the war.

Analysis

‘Settler Violence’ Campaign Aims at Establishing Palestinian State on ‘Day After’

By Matan Peleg

Last week the campaign matured into actual sanctions on “extremist settlers.”

Analysis

Multinational Force in Gaza Will Fail if History is Any Guide

By David Isaac

Hezbollah recently fired a rocket just 20 meters from a U.N. compound in Lebanon on Dec. 9.

Analysis

Israel Aid Supplemental Critical for Long-Term Defense, Possible Second Front, Experts Say

By Andrew Bernard

“Israel has nowhere near the capacity they need to deal with a major war with Hezbollah,” said Brad Bowman, of FDD. “We have to sound the alarm so that the people that can actually do something about it can fix it.”

Analysis

Setting the Record Straight: Part XIV: No Shortage of Volunteers 

By Alex Grobman PhD.

*Editor’s Note: This is the fourteenth installment in 'Setting The Record Straight,' the most recent series of articles from Jewish Press Online contributor, Alex Grobman, PhD  There is no dearth of volunteers for martyrdom a Hamas leader pointed out. Their greatest problem was the “hordes” of young men who demanded to be sent. The selection […]

Analysis

Israeli Military Governance Might Be Temporarily Required in Gaza

By BESA CENTER

Israel has spent 17 years trying to disengage from Gaza without success, and there has been round after round of fighting. besas

The Ettinger Report

Iran’s Jihad Against the West

By Yoram Ettinger

Iran’s ayatollahs, who have been courted and appeased by the West, are committed to bringing the West—and especially “the Great American Satan”—into submission.

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